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There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She i...s a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements of ...man had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The most profound effect of World War I on me ... was that it committed me to international affairs as the principal work of my li...fe. ...I have sometimes regretted that my avocation or chief hobby happened to be such a gloomy one. ...When I look at the world today ... I sometimes wonder whether [my efforts] were not nearly all in vain. Perhaps it would have been better if I had adopted as my chief hobby the cultivation of chrysanthemums or the breeding of West Highland White Terriers or even, as did one of my friends, the collection of Japanese swordguards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

...I still have faith occasionally in the brotherhood of man, and in spite of all the tragedies that have intervened since [1945],... believe that sometime, somehow, all the nations of the world can work together for the common good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Barnard's greatest war service ... was the continuance of full-scale instruction in the liberal arts ... It was Barnard's responsi...bility to keep alive in the minds of young people the great liberal tradition of the past and the study of philosophy, of history, of Greek.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

...at this stage in the advancement of women the best policy for them is not to talk much about the abstract principles of women's... rights but to do good work in any job they get, better work if possible than their male colleagues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge t...o fit that service into the well-being of the community,--these are the most vital things education must try to produce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »